Publisher's Synopsis
Our Lady of Good Success, to Mother Mariana, on January 21, 1610:
"It will be difficult to receive the Sacrament of Baptism and also that of Confirmation...the devil will make a great effort to destroy the Sacrament of Confession by means of people in positions of authority."
"Unbridled passions will give way to a total corruption of customs because Satan will reign through the Masonic sects, targeting the children in particular to ensure general corruption.
"Unhappy, the children of those times! Seldom will they receive the Sacraments of Baptism and Confirmation. As for the sacrament of Penance, they will confess only while attending Catholic schools, which the devil will do his utmost to destroy by means of persons in authority.
"They will focus principally on the children in order to sustain this general corruption. Woe to the children of these times! It will be difficult to receive the Sacrament of Baptism, and also that of Confirmation...
"The same will occur with Holy Communion. Oh, how it hurts me to tell you that there will be many and enormous public and hidden sacrileges!
There will be an unspeakable profanation of the Holy Eucharist in our time: "...the enemies of Jesus Christ, instigated by the devil, will steal consecrated Hosts from the churches so that they may profane the Eucharistic species. My Most Holy Son will see himself cast upon the ground and trampled upon by filthy feet."
"As for the Sacrament of Matrimony... it will be attacked and deeply profaned... The Catholic spirit will rapidly decay; the precious light of the Faith will gradually be extinguished...
"The Sacrament of Matrimony, which symbolizes the union of Christ with the Church, will be thoroughly attacked and profaned. Masonry, then reigning, will implement iniquitous laws aimed at extinguishing this Sacrament. They will make it easy for all to live in sin, thus multiplying the birth of illegitimate children without the Church's blessing....
Added to this will be the effects of secular education, which will be one reason for the dearth of priestly and religious vocations.
Like the Eucharist, the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony will be profaned in a multitude of ways resulting in "iniquitous laws with the objective of doing away with this Sacrament, making it easy for everyone to live in sin, encouraging the procreation of illegitimate children born without the blessing of the Church. The Christian spirit will rapidly decay, extinguishing the precious light of faith until it reaches a point that there will be an almost total and general corruption of customs."
"The Sacrament of Holy Orders will be ridiculed, oppressed, and despised, for in this both the Church and God Himself are oppressed and reviled, since He is represented by His priests.... The Devil will try to persecute the ministers of the Lord in every possible way; he will labor with cruel and subtle astuteness to deviate them from the spirit of their vocation and will corrupt many of them. These depraved priests, who will scandalize the Christian people, will make the hatred of bad Catholics and the enemies of the Roman Catholic and Apostolic Church fall upon all priests...
People will not esteem the Sacrament of Holy Unction and many will die without receiving it. Our Lady predicted that, because of this, "many souls will be deprived of innumerable graces, consolations and the strength they need to make that great leap from time to eternity."
